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A supergiant star has gone all space ham, suggesting it might soon go supernova, but now shows signs of mellowing.
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The enigmatic supergiant star Betelgeuse is still on schedule to explode sometime within the next 100,000 years, but it's probably not happening tomorrow. That's according to an astronomer who has been watching the shape-shifting sun for decades.
The massive red solar furnace, several hundred light years away from us, has been making headlines for months now as it has rapidl...

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In a weird update to an already strange story, the head of the Russian space agency reportedly announced that they now know what caused a mysterious hole that was found in a Soyuz capsule attached to the ISS last summer, but they are refusing to tell anyone their findings. The two-millimeter-in-diameter bit of damage was discovered in late August of 2018 when a drop in cabin pressure aboard the ISS was traced back to the inexplicable opening which was subsequently patched wi...

Solar flares and full moons affect human behavior. Could these mysterious flashing lights also be affecting the humans down on the ground?
MYSTERIOUS UNIVERSE
We’ve been seeing some weird stuff happening in deep space recently. First, the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way lit up for some unknown reason, and now NASA says they’ve detected mysterious green and blue blobs of light that appeared near the center of the “Fireworks galaxy” and disappeared just as quickly. If al...

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The European Space Agency just secured 436 million euros to send its first-ever rover to Mars in 2020.
The news came as a relief to scientists behind the two-part ExoMars mission, who are still reeling after their spacecraft Schiaparelli crashed in an attempt to land on the Red Planet during the first part of the mission.
But a proposal to survey a near-Earth asteroid — and eventually attempt to knock it off course — was not so lucky.
Last month, more than 100 planeta...

Russia’s newest heavy rocket carrier Angara-A5 will orbit a commercial satellite for the first time in 2016, the head of the Khrunichev Center said Wednesday.
“[The launch will be in] 2016, everything depends on the space apparatus. I think that this will be a commercial launch, but I don’t know if it will be a foreign or Russian apparatus,” Andrei Kalinovsky told journalists.
The Angara family of space launch vehicles has been in development since 1995. According to Roscosmos, new A...

The United States Air Force's mysterious X-37B space plane will head to orbit this week for the fourth time.
The unmanned X-37B spacecraft is scheduled to launch Wednesday (May 20) at 10:45 a.m. EDT (1445 GMT) atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The liftoff will begin the reusable space plane's fourth mission, which is known as OTV-4 (short for Orbital Test Vehicle-4).
Most of the X-37B's payloads and specific activities are classif...